Earth 21002009

Host:
By 2100, our world could be transformed.

HEIDI CULLEN:
[Climatologist, Climate Central] Just, imagine a city that's not polluted, that has a great transportation infrastructure...

MITCHELL JOACHIM:
[Architect And Urban Designer] Stackable cars, and they would charge, and be a shared ownership model, and you would just pull out the one that's available that's fully charged. Everything happens inside the city itself. That means our food production, our waste and recycling, our energy.

PETER GLEICK:
[President, Pacific Institute ] We're going to have joint management of water resources, of energy resources, uh, of disaster management. We're going to be living on a planet where we don't see things at a national level, but we see things at a global level.

VAN JONES:
[Founder, Green for All] By the time we get to 2100, the challenge of building a global, green economy where we're sharing technologies and where we're not fighting wars over water and oil... That's going to bring out the best in the human family.

E.O. WILSON:
[Biologist & Entomologist, Harvard University] Humanity will be relatively, disease-free. Children will be treated as rare treasures.

PETER DeMENOCAL:
[Professor of Environmental Sciences, Columbia University] What most people don't realize is that not only can we change, we must change. And I think that's how you own the future. That's how you take control of your destiny

STUART PIMM:
[Professor of Conservation Ecology, Duke University] I have huge faith in humanity.

THOMAS FRIEDMAN:
[Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times] And we will be able to create a world that will be a livable planet for our kids and their kids. That is our opportunity. That is our obligation.

ALEX STEFFEN:
[Author, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the Twenty-First Century] Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?